Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Ambulance Service: Discussion

2:00 am

Manus Boyle (Fine Gael)
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Why is Belmullet different to the Killybegs area? We have a far greater geographical area. Let us call a spade a spade here: we are up in Donegal and left on our own. I know of cases where people have been put into cars to take them to the accident and emergency centre rather than calling an ambulance because they know no one is available. Is that what we are coming down to?